Commentator

Sr. Forum Moderator

Anyway why not ditch Icons entirely? Most people are abandoning having shortcuts on the desktop now that you can pin stuff to the task bar/start menu or get a dock plugin. Then that wallpaper will be an option. It does look pretty cool.

Deactivated

Ponyologist & Plush Master

So, new page, new topic time!
For entirely self-serving reasons, I’d like to discuss the previous generation.
I think most bronies would probably like to pretend G3.5 never existed, but I think I have found one small aspect that I want to salvage.
Yeah, that’s right Scootaloo had a frickin’ parrot!
mfw:
(No, I don’t care that it was for a Halloween costume. Shut up.)
Despite my own… personal reasons, I actually do like the idea of Scootaloo having a pet parrot.
I think it would work really well with her character.
It’s rainbow-colored like her hero and she could teach it to say any silly little self-aggrandizing things she wanted.

It also reminds me of a great comic I saw way back when I first started watching this show:

So, in an effort to pretend that this wasn’t a post completely devoted to my own name having a tangential canon relationship to my favorite pony, does anyone else have any detail that they might like to see carried over from a previous incarnation of MLP?

Conversationalist

I would have been serious, too, if it weren’t for you meddling episodes and your Hearts and Hooves Day. That damaged credibility for that idea majorly.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyways, it’d be neat to have minor references to past villains, without them actually be in there. For example, going the way of the Discorderly Conduct tumblr and put them in as allies to Discord in days long past. Or just a statue in the background of some ruins the characters find themselves in.

Iamslow

Deactivated

>too busy to post all week
>come back and it’s page 34
>remember how my mom almost saw my sexy humanized mlp mp3 wallpaper once
>luckily she was too distracted by all the spaghetti pouring out of my pockets at the time as I fumbled with the thing to obscure her view of it to notice
>lose spaghetti just thinking about it
>realize I actually had spaghetti for dinner
>the spaghetti has been doubled

Conversationalist

Conversationalist

So, new page, new topic time!
For entirely self-serving reasons, I’d like to discuss the previous generation.
I think most bronies would probably like to pretend G3.5 never existed, but I think I have found one small aspect that I want to salvage.
Yeah, that’s right Scootaloo had a frickin’ parrot!
mfw:
(No, I don’t care that it was for a Halloween costume. Shut up.)
Despite my own… personal reasons, I actually do like the idea of Scootaloo having a pet parrot.
I think it would work really well with her character.
It’s rainbow-colored like her hero and she could teach it to say any silly little self-aggrandizing things she wanted.

It also reminds me of a great comic I saw way back when I first started watching this show:

So, in an effort to pretend that this wasn’t a post completely devoted to my own name having a tangential canon relationship to my favorite pony, does anyone else have any detail that they might like to see carried over from a previous incarnation of MLP?

That could almost work, except Rainbow already has the awesomest pet around, Tank. And it’s not that Scootaloo isn’t awesome, she is, it’s just that she wouldn’t make a very good pet, at least in relation to Tank, who serves as a perfect foil to Rainbow Dash, in addition to being at least 20% cooler than every other pet. But since that comic is quite amusing, and was made before Tank even existed, it gets a pass.

You know what, Rainbow should adopt Scootaloo as her sister, and Tank can be the family pet. Think of all the concentrated awesomeness in one family.

And yes, I did feel the need to quote your post with two massive pictures in it.

Did I hear someone say Berry Punch and Cherilee?
Because I thought I heard someone say Berry Punch and Cherilee.

Cite

Deactivated

@Cite
We’re just kidding, you know how much we love you ;)
Anyway why not ditch Icons entirely? Most people are abandoning having shortcuts on the desktop now that you can pin stuff to the task bar/start menu or get a dock plugin. Then that wallpaper will be an option. It does look pretty cool.

Database Moderator & Ponyologist & God Tier Swag

Sr. Forum Moderator

I have a feeling you were intending to show us something else other that the VocalTwit homepage. Do elaborate on that.

Unless you are legitimately offended by the concept of sharing tweets through voice as well as text so there is now twice the potential for obnoxiousness.

Also is it funny that I googled “VocalTwit” and the first result was Tara Strong?

@Phoenix

Well I’m back after a couple of weeks of…not being back. What is the current topic of discussion? Is Cite posting again? Did I miss anything big? I ALWAYSSEEM TO MISSBIGTHINGS! :(EDIT: I find it very unsettling that I chose to return on Page 34….

I’m not sure what we are doing. We were talking about the Bronycon documentary until then once again someone needed to bring up R34 (stemming of the question of whether or not the documentary will address it).

The Bronycon documentary discussion ended immediately when this thread began…I mean like, the last few posts of page 33 were essentially: “DROPEVERYTHING! R34!”

Now that we are on page 34; we’re kind of discussing whatever, while remaining awkwardly silent on R34 despite the subject hanging on everyone’s minds…but I know you all want to to discuss it… Absolutely none of you can resist such an attractive and voluptuous topic…

null

Deactivated

Commentator

Oh wow, I missed a lot of crap. Who told you guys you were allowed to have interesting conversations without me? I was under the assumption that you ceased existing as soon as I clicked away.

@Bieber is a brony

I…don’t know how to react to this. The mlp fandom was kind of defined by the fact that it was a small little counter-culture trend, and now we’ve got Bieber taking us up. Is this part of the shift where mlp starts to become mainstream and shitty as a result? Can we expect an influx of haters and preteen girls to start joining us?

Hate to be dreary, but it sounds like the fandom has reached critical mass and we’re at the stage where it all starts to suck.

@Dac and brony documentary

You know, I think bronies and brony culture could make a legitimately interesting documentary if the journalists making it weren’t there for the express purpose of doing a huge ego whack-off. If you could find someone to report on us completely and fully without trying to glorify or demonize us, that’s something I’d be really interested in watching. I doubt I’ll watch the one they’re making now though on account of con bronies creeping me the fuck out.

@Dead Parrot

1st rule of Scootaloo fandom, you do not talk about older Scootaloos
2nd rule of Scootaloo fandom, YOU DO NOTTALKABOUTOLDERSCOOTALOOS

ExudesAffluence

Deactivated

Maybe Bieber is a bit more mainstream than we’re all accustomed to, and yes, he has legions of young female followers, but so what? Maybe a bunch of those girls suddenly think it’s cool to be a brony because Justin Bieber said it was cool. They’ll start watching the show, and maybe they buy some stuff from Hot Topic or whatever. It won’t go any farther. Sure, maybe you’ll start seeing obnoxious preteen girls in brony shirts in public, but that’s the worst that could happen. I doubt any of them ever go on the Internet anyways, except maybe on Facebook and 9gag. Bronydom wouldn’t be flooded with Bieber fans. Shoot, maybe some of them do try it out, and actually become functioning members of brony society. That’d be fine with me. But most people are quick to move on from things they don’t enjoy, so a lot of these girls would probably give up on MLP pretty fast if they didn’t legitimately enjoy it.

@Blingpony; Which pony would work the best for being gold-plated? I think it would be one of the alicorns, or Vinyl, or Fancy Pants/Fleur-De-Lis/Photo Finish/you get the drift. why do i know so many of these names

Conversationalist

And the bieber stuff is a hoax. Why do you guys believe everything at first sight?

I came here to type that. First of all, look at the tweet.
What you notice is that his grammar is better in this one tweet than the rest. Second, if he did make such a tweet, then the backlash from rabid fangirls would be almost immediate, and the media would have picked it up for the Hollywood story of the day. And the last peice of incriminating evidence is when he says ‘caps’. Let me ask you, do you watch ‘caps’ of a show? No. Because ‘caps’ is short for capitulos which, in Spanish, is used as the equivalent to ‘episode’. So this was the work of a Spanish speaking shooper as it is unlikely that the Biebs suddenly started using Spanish terms. Also this
And for that whole Berry Punch thing…
Drinking may be fun… but the day after…

Deactivated

Conversationalist

Also McCarthy is the head writer for season three and came up with most of the premises.

REALLY?!?

I don’t see a rational explanation! I mean, is obvious the cartoon is a huge success, people that are not the target audience are watching the show/buying the toys. By the point of view of business, there is no reason to stop at 13 episodes.

Conversationalist

Sr. Forum Moderator

We can hope for that optimistically but you just know this is going to revive past fears that the show will end at…what was it?…64 episodes? Something like that, I can’t remember. Get ready for all the MLP apocalypse threads.

I’m sure more news will come around so personally I’ll wait and see before jumping to conclusions

@Fifths

I…don’t know how to react to this.

I know how I am going to react to this

Don’t you people ever get tired of this shit?

No, never. In the near entire year I have been here (gosh, its been that long) I have never seen any end to R34 discussion on this thread. Somebody always brings it up, always. Nobody can ever let it go. Everyone has to voice their opinion on it. It’s the pandora’s box of PG

God yes, I need a fucking drink.

Now that I think about it, I could use a drink too. I think I’ll spend the weekend at my mates place today and trash myself on Vodka.

Conversationalist

Also McCarthy is the head writer for season three and came up with most of the premises.

Jesus H Christ! That’s not just slowpoke, that’s a comatose level -1 slowpoke with all his legs amputated. Don’t worry though, verbose posted something a while back that hinted at it being a full season, plus we’ve been over the whole “bad buisnness” part and its pretty obvious they won’t stop at three seasons.

Conversationalist

I’m pretty sure it was confirmed or something that there were 26 episodes, but they just completed the first thirteen during Season 2 or something, and were still working on the last half or will be touching up on them during Season 3. They might take a break around the middle of the season to finish up the second half, which is where the ‘only 13 episodes’ came from, I think.

And saying it’s going to end at that is ridiculous. I’m pretty sure it’s been confirmed they’re making more seasons and that the show is a massive success. They had a several million strong viewership for the S2 finale, and that will only become stronger.

Conversationalist

Iamslow

Deactivated

Yeah, but it was pretty much just a rumor for months and that sounded like a pretty solid confirmation. She specifically said it was a “shortened season” in that recording.

I don’t see how this means the show will end to some people, though. According to this hasbro was apparently just playing it safe this time around by ordering half a season because Faust and Renzetti left. I’m thinking if things go well without them and they order more seasons they will probably have 26 eps again.

ExudesAffluence

Deactivated

This was the worst page 34 ever. Rainbow Dash thinks you don’t love her anymore.

Anyways, 13 episodes? It’s whatever. The fandom has proven pretty good at carrying me through pony droughts, and it’s highly unlikely the season has been shortened because the show is being cancelled. I’m not concerned, unless all of the episodes turn out to be complete shitte.

At this point, I have a confession to make: I haven’t seen five episodes from season 2. Please forgive me.

Conversationalist

Conversationalist

To be honest, I really hate that next season is only 13 episodes. 13 is a really bad number, and I’m not saying that because of the superstition. Whenever I see 13 in the context of TV, I think of this:

And I get really worried.

Now, we can all be rest assured that Hasbro would never do that. They’re not the smartest entertainment company out there, but they’re at least ten times smarter than Fox, especially for embracing obscure fans rather than shunning them. But I can’t help but think this is rather out of place. We’ve had two full seasons so far, and now they’re cutting it down, and I can’t but wonder why. I think the great hope is that they’re working on something bigger, like a movie. Maybe the staff is just overworked, and they’re cutting down to take themselves off the chopping block they were on throughout last year, which is totally fine. I just feel like there should be more.

Collector

Anyway, I suppose I should put in my two cents regarding the shorter season. I Assume it means we’re going to have smaller gaps between seasons as opposed to big gaps. Sort of like some schools have one big summer break each year, while some schools have the year cut into smaller chunks with a bunch of short gaps in between. It’s a thought.

Ponyologist & Plush Master

@Fridge
Oh, god, Firefly!
Why did you leave us so soon?
You were so young… So full of life…
Yeah, after all this brony stuff, not to mention success in their target demo, I can’t possibly imagine Hasbro shutting MLP down any time soon.
Windigo kinda ninja’d me, but I was also thinking that they might be moving to a more year-round production schedule, where 13 episodes are made for winter release and 13 for summer or something like that.
I wonder if they are trying to mitigate a loos of interest in the show that can occur over these long gaps in between seasons.
Well, all we can do is wait and see what happens.

And now for something completely different:
“Look, here are three little plushies…”image host

Sr. Forum Moderator

This was the worst page 34 ever. Rainbow Dash thinks you don’t love her anymore.

Oh well, at least you still have the image gallery. Plenty of R34 there for everyone.

Speaking of which, is anyone starting to think Advance is getting a little too ahead of himself with his uploads? (I mean, that Octavia/Rarity pic…hot damn…that’s pretty close to overstepping the rules if it doesn’t already.) The guy is already causing JJ to complain. If he keeps it up, he will get more.